By: Fatma Janna, Serang, October 5, 2011

 

Have you ever heard this thing? “Going the Extra Miles” means doing extra effort, doing more or better then what common people usually do. For example, you are a student and most of your friends just study at school and two hours more at home every day as the time to do take home assignments. But you, because you want to “go the extra miles”, you add another couple hours to study every day at home, an hour for reviewing the lessons you had at school that day and the other hour is to study what the teachers will teach you tomorrow at school. By doing this regularly every day, you are going the extra miles. The result of this, of course as what you think, you will get great marks, the teachers will be proud of you and your parents will love you more.

Somehow, if you choose not to go the extra miles just because you think it is so tiring and wasting time, you know what it will be. You will only be an average student, getting average mark, your teachers will not be so attracted to you because you are just one of common students and your parents will just love you like the way they love your other sisters or brothers.

To do this extra effort is one of great methods of reaching your success. By doing more and better than common people do, you will be a special one. If you apply this method as an employee, your boss will soon promote your position because he knows you deserve this as the special one who always goes the extra miles, does better and more than common people do.

Another example, we can see famous football players in the world, like David Villa, Colonel Messi and Christiano Ronaldo. They never had regular football practices like the other average-paid football players do. They practice more and more, harder and harder. Even until they become like nowadays, they still practice hard. So, people around the world can see how their practices, their efforts, could make them become the best football players in the world.

Going the extra miles has not always to be a big thing like the hard football practices done by those famous football players. It can also be a little thing like checking over your assignment after you finished doing it once or twice, to make sure that every single answer you did was right.

One thing you always have to remember when applying this useful method. Going the extra miles does not mean to do extra effort which is illegal, like for example cheating. You might think that cheating on exam is one of forms of going the extra miles. No, it is not. You are wrong if you think so. Going the extra miles means doing more but still in the right path. Not doing illegal things, not at all.

Well, you might be right when you think that going the extra miles is tiring. Of course, when you want to be a successful one, you will never taste the sweetness of reaching the success without first enjoying the bitterness of doing hard work. One of these hard works is going the extra miles.

Hence, if you want to be that special person, the successful one, the one loved by many people, you’ve got to be going the extra miles.

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